Re: [microsound] w(h)ither the past?

["Phil Thomson" <hellomynameisphil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>I do think that the idea of destroying/deconstructing past art in order
to
>create new works is very related to microsound. After all, isn't that
>what sampled music is all about?

Some of it, perhaps. But a lot of sample-based music is precisely about
preserving or worshipping the past, or at least not questioning it, like
all those "funky drummer" based tracks or whatever. A kind of
cryosonics; freezing the music of the past to make everything
simultaneously present. I guess that's "deconstructive" (in the pop
sense of the word) in its own way, but mostly as a byproduct.

And a lot of microsound seems not to refer to the past, or anything else
at all for that matter. 

Phil

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